Bay Area legend Ray Ratto's recent column about Pablo Sandoval , combined with the ESPN Franchise Player draft, brought the idea of franchise players back to my mind. Through the years, the Giants have had their share of legends...

The San Francisco Giants pitching staff is widely regarded as one of the best in baseball. At the same time, the San Francisco Giants pitching staff is not the highest-paid pitching staffs in baseball...

Jeff Tedford 's job should not be safe. I could end it right there, and I'm sure that this article would get at least 40,000 people (around two-thirds of the capacity of Memorial Stadium) who agree with me...

The Giants have been many things this season. They have been walk-off happy. They have been in first place. Most recently, they've been injured beyond recognition. But one thing they have been very consistently all year is offensively challenged...

Remember when Aubrey Huff hit .290 last year with 26 homeruns and 86 RBI, and everyone was like, Wow! Where'd he come from? I hope he doesn't regress if we sign him to a big two-year deal! And then we did (two yrs/$22 million)...

It's all over San Francisco, and it's not pretty: Buster Posey is broken. We're not exactly sure how broken, but it's bad enough for us Giants fans to look back at those times only days ago where he was "only" taking foul balls off the face...

Last night was my first night at the yard in 2011. I failed at going to the park in 2010, only attending five Giants games in one of the most exciting seasons in recent memory, three of which were in Washington , D...

Aaron Rowand was kind of on the San Francisco Giants roster bubble. At least for all of us who know how to read. Now, Cody Ross is injured, so he's pretty much a lock, as our friend Grant tells us over at McCovey Chronicles ...

Brian Wilson is hurt! Let the madness begin. Some headlines are already there, most of which are referring to buzz phrases like "oblique muscle" and "out for opener" and "former Beach Boy still playing guitar" and "PANIC PANIC PANIC...

BASEBALL! This is sort of a continuation of the first post, but I'd like to go over one of the things that the Barry Zito contract has pointed out to me. People knock on Major League Baseball because it lacks a salary cap...